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  • Qualities of a voice emeritus 
    Bloothooft, Gerrit; Pabon, Peter (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    The effects of vocal ageing are investigated in a professional mezzo-soprano singer, for which the phonetogram, and 45 vowels, each sung at fundamental frequencies of 220, 392, and 659 Hz, were recorded at the age of 52 ...
  • Tone and song in Kalam Kohistani (Pakistan) 
    Baart, Joan L.G. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    Like many other languages in the north-western corner of the South-Asian subcontinent, Kalam Kohistani, spoken in two mountain valleys in northern Pakistan, has contrastive lexical tone. This paper explores how the tonal ...
  • Introduction 
    Heuven, Vincent J. van; Quené, Hugo (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2004-09)
    "Siebout Govaert Nooteboom (Sieb, [sip]) was born 65 years ago (19 April, 1939) in Makassar on the isle of Celebes (now Sulawesi), in the former Dutch East Indies, which is now part of the Republik Indonesia. Nooteboom ...
  • Usage-Based Approaches to Dutch : Lexicon, grammar, discourse 
    Verhagen, Arie; Weijer, Jeroen van de (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2003-12)
    This volume brings together six papers by linguistic specialists who not only share an interest in Dutch, but also the ambition to account for characteristics of the linguistic system and for linguistic usage with the ...
  • Drift in Dutch: Fleshing out the factors of change 
    Shannon, Thomas F. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2003-12)
    "A well-known adage in linguistics has it that all languages change over time. The Dutch language is certainly no exception to this rule, whether over the full course of its documented history or even in the relatively short ...
  • Meaning and use of causeeless causative constructions with laten in Dutch 
    Loewenthal, Judith (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2003-12)
    "Analytic causative constructions in Dutch are constructions formed by an auxiliary, a form of the verbs doen or laten, in combination with a bare infinitive. Doen or laten forms the causal predicate that denotes ...
  • A contrastive study of Dutch and French causal connectives on the Speaker Involvement Scale 
    Degand, Liesbeth; Pander Maat, Henk (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2003-12)
    "In this paper, we have investigated whether an alternative account to the categorization of connectives, the Speaker Involvement scale, could be extended to backward causal connectives in Dutch and in French. To this end, ...
  • The Dutch way 
    Verhagen, Arie (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2003-12)
    "When linguists describe the structure of a sentence, they typically use a rather restricted set of concepts, such as ‘accusative’, ‘subject’, ‘passive’, ‘verb phrase’, ‘goal’, and ‘adjunct’. These are quite abstract ...
  • On the Interaction of the Dutch Pragmatic Particles hoor and hè with the Imperative and Infinitivus Pro Imperativo 
    Kirsner, Robert S. (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2003-12)
    "The purpose of the present paper is to discuss two such phenomena and to explain the hitherto undescribed interaction between them. First we consider the utterance-final pragmatic particles hoor (literally ‘hear’) and ...
  • How feminine is a linguist? On the meaning of non-feminine names of professions 
    Santen, Ariane van (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2003-12)
    "There are good reasons to assume that the meaning of non-feminine names can be described as ‘non-female person’. We have, however, seen that with many names we nevertheless picture a man and, furthermore, that other ...
  • Introduction 
    Verhagen, Arie; Weijer, Jeroen van de (LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2003-12)
    "On March 22 and 23, 2000, Leiden University hosted an international symposium under the title ‘Language, Culture, and Cognition’. The organizers (Vincent van Heuven, Jeroen van de Weijer, and José Birker) had decided ...